Aim: To provide people with responsibility for providing care and support for an autistic person or people, but who could seek support from others for complex management or complex decision-making, with the knowledge and understanding required to support autistic children, young people, and adults. Objectives: By successfully completing this course you will be able to:

• Understand the spectrum of autism including abilities, disabilities, and spiky skills profiles
• Understand the importance of equal, timely access to autism assessment and diagnosis and some of the barriers to diagnosis
• Describe the legislations relevant to autism in the UK
• Describe quality care, person-centred support, and strategies to support autistic individuals
• Understand how to support autistic people to deal with change
• Understand how the behaviour of an autistic individual may indicate stress
• Understand how to interpret a change in an autistic individual’s presentation or behaviour
• List common issues faced by autistic people and describe how to support them
• Understand stimming
• Understand the activities that people with autism adopt to ‘self soothe’ or ‘self-regulate’ or just ‘calm down’
• Understand the common communication needs of autistic people
• Understand how health inequality affects autistic people and what are the main causes of it
• List the reasonable adjustments to be put in place to access health care and other services
• Understand the role of health action plans/health passports in signposting important adjustments
• Understand about the types of abuse which may be especially relevant for autistic people
• Understand that people with autism have the right to make decisions and know how to support them in this process
• Describe how to raise a safeguarding concern and where to get information and advice on Mental Capacity Act or Equality issues
• List your responsibilities as a care provider for an autistic person
• Understand the importance of working with others, including what role do family members, carers and supporters play in the lives of autistic people
• including what role family carers and supporters may play in the lives of autistic people
• Understand how to meet the needs autistic people in the workplace

Course Duration: Face-2-Face session will be delivered at your location for up to 16 attendees. Cost of this course is for all 16 attendees. eLearning: 3 hours. Face to Face session:  Equivalent to a one day course. If you are looking to enroll more than one individual, please visit the Group Creation page HERE.